Re: [school-discuss] Microsoft license enforcement

[Christopher Hornbaker <chrishornbaker@earthlink.net>]

There ARE ways around it. Let's, first, take a look at the part that is
really hurting the community.

"1.4 "IPR Impairing License" shall mean the GNU General Public License,
the GNU Lesser/Library General Public License, and any license that
requires in any instance that other software distributed with software
subject to such license (a) be disclosed and distributed in source code
form; (b) be licensed for purposes of making derivative works; or (c) be
redistributable at no charge."

Okay, so the *SOFTWARE* can't have those requirements. Not a problem.
Ever hear of the GNU Free Documentation License? It's basically the GNU
GPL for written works. Isn't source code a written work? Yes, it is.
Simply license the code under the GNU FDL and act like it's a document,
plain and simple. If someone decides to compile it and make it Opaque,
that's their choice, don't tell them to do it, though. The software,
erm... I mean, the document will forever be modifiable and free to
distribute, commercially or non-commercially.

Just an idea (and not a bad one at that).

Chris Hornbaker